Confounding

BACKGROUND: Confounding is a statistical concept that is important to all researchers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The concept of confounding is explained with the help of an amusing but true example. Simple explanations about and examples of confounding are provided. Methods to deal with confounding are...

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Autor principal: Andrade, Chittaranjan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2007
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2917080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20711398
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.33263
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description BACKGROUND: Confounding is a statistical concept that is important to all researchers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The concept of confounding is explained with the help of an amusing but true example. Simple explanations about and examples of confounding are provided. Methods to deal with confounding are detailed and their applications and disadvantages are examined. CONCLUSIONS: Attention to confounding is necessary at the time of study design as well as during the statistical analysis of data. The failure to identify and control for confounding can result in the faulty interpretation of study outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-29170802010-08-14 Confounding Andrade, Chittaranjan Indian J Psychiatry Commentary BACKGROUND: Confounding is a statistical concept that is important to all researchers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The concept of confounding is explained with the help of an amusing but true example. Simple explanations about and examples of confounding are provided. Methods to deal with confounding are detailed and their applications and disadvantages are examined. CONCLUSIONS: Attention to confounding is necessary at the time of study design as well as during the statistical analysis of data. The failure to identify and control for confounding can result in the faulty interpretation of study outcomes. Medknow Publications 2007 /pmc/articles/PMC2917080/ /pubmed/20711398 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.33263 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2917080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20711398
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.33263
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